Senior Techinician, Instrumentation - Cement Dangote Group

Job Summary

Perform routine maintenance, repairs, installation, calibration, adjustment and integration of various types of plant instrumentation equipment.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Perform all work order maintenance, troubleshooting, and calibration of plant equipment as directed.
• Troubleshoot, inspect, test, maintain, repair, clean and calibrate instrumentation and solid state and microprocessor based control equipment including plant communications equipment, programmable controllers, distributive control systems, generator excitation equipment, battery chargers, and semi-conductor devices.
• Repair or replace control devices such as switches, photo eyes, proximity sensors, pushbuttons, contactors, motor starters, transmitters, etc. as needed.
• Install control and measurement instruments on existing or new plant equipment.
• Troubleshooting, repair, and minor programming of various PLC control systems, frequency drives and other electrical equipment.
• Participate in plant safety, health and environmental programs and obsere safety in accordance with government and company standards.

• Use a wide range of test equipment, including recorders, computers, control and tuning modules, PC based software analyzer programs, oscilloscopes, data analyzers, logic test equipment, analogue and digital multi-meters, meggars and other test equipment, while performing tests to identify problems and to maintain and calibrate equipment to performance standards.
• Make regular inspection rounds of plant instrumentation, and control equipment.
• Assist in developing detailed preventive and predictive maintenance procedures for plant instrumentation and control equipment.
• Install, build, or modify plant instrument, and control equipment as directed by the Instrumentation Engineer or Section Head.

Requirements

Education and Work Experience

• Diploma in Engineering (Instrumentation /Electronics /Electrical Engineering) or related discipline.
• 8 - 16 years of relevant work experience.

Skills and Competencies

• Good knowledge of phase testers, multimeters, meggers and other testing equipment.
• • Ability to read and interpret documents and drawings.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Very good organisational skills.
• Good interpersonal, networking and teaming skills.
• Proficiency in the use of office productivity tools

Benefits

• Private Health Insurance
• Pension Plan
• Training & Development